Sentence examples for through the purse from inspiring English sources

My mother looked through the purse herself.

She fumbles through the purse for her wallet, thinking to offer him a reward, but then she remembers that there's no money in it — hadn't he said on the phone that the money was gone?

It seems one thing to expect a dismissed Coca-Cola chemist not to spill the formula for Coke Classic and quite another to compel him through the purse to forfeit his presumably inalienable right to grumble about a company that bounced him.

After he found the right cage, they sorted through the purse's take, filling a sack for Le Bernardin, saving the larger ones for other restaurants, and putting the smaller ones back for next year.

"I think we're trying to shut down abortions in Texas, and doing that through cutting off the purse strings," Mr. Miller said.

Only through control of the purse strings — refusing money for new buildings, for example — did central government exercise any influence over either universities or schools.

Where there is injustice, we want to respond, whether in-person, online, or through power of the purse -- even when it is that of a teenager who gives what little he can.

The federal government can encourage this development through the power of the purse.

But Congress, which is able to maintain some control over the independent and executive branch agencies through the power of the purse, has never taken that view seriously.

And as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, which controls how tax money is spent, he is in a position to constrain the president through the power of the purse.

You can drive the direction of what corporations will do through the power of the purse.